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Linking to Wordperfect & Word documents

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by curiousinfo

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I need to put some documents on our Intranet that are in both Word & WordPerfect formats so users can open the documents in the word processor of their choice. How do I link to these documents since the only links to html format documents. I do not want to save the Word/WP docs as web documents. I need to keep them in their original formats.

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by syscokid

If I understand your question right, I think you can do

Word Document

WordPerfect Document

by thechas

You could try creating a web page with a list of the documents and links to them built into the page.

by curiousinfo

Looking back at my original question, I meant to say tag not . Yes, SyscoKid's answer works to link to the docs, but they open up in the web browser. I want them to open in their originating program, i.e. Word or WordPerfect, similar to the way e-mail attachments open up the original programs.

by jay eckles

Responding to CuriousInfo's comment:
When the word doc opens in the user's browser, it is because that is how the user (or his/her LAN administrator) has configured it. On my machine, the documented does open in my browser but I have the full features of MS Word available, so I doubt it's a problem. If it is, suggest to your users that they consider reconfiguring their browser. It's not something you can control on the server end, notwithstanding some kludgy work-arounds.

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